Word: creaming
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...being, he possesses not even rudimentary principles; and as a critic he hasn't any esthetic standards." The Bookman accused him of commercialism, credited him with an uncanny flair for perceiving genius in unknown writers. "No one else in the world could have anticipated Jurgen by reading The Cream of the Jest." His wife, however, had this to say: "Well, he snores, grinds his teeth and moans in his sleep; but otherwise he is perfect." Mr. Rascoe likes to hear young writers' troubles, is enthusiastic, sociable, voluble. He has the long nose of intelligence; curly hair, bright eyes...
...Honorable Great Lady, thus bedight, partook with her additional 300 ladies-in-waiting of bosat, a beverage then esteemed and consisting, much like the modern "milk shake," of flavored sugar and cream. While she presided, swathed to immobility in riches, the courtiers of Tamburlaine-according to an ancient historian-"would fall down drunk before her; and this was considered very jovial, for . . . there can be no pleasure without drunken...
...Berlin newspaper owned by Herr Alfred Hugenberg, the late Hugo Stinnes' publicist: "The envious glance of the Yankee turns to rich and flourishing Germany. . . . These [German] barbarians do not even chew gum, but smoke tobacco prodigally and vulgarly. They drink real beer, eat mountains of cake with whipped cream instead of American ice cream and they consume butter, milk, eggs, poultry, and even fruit. Finally, they still drink coffee...
When Christian K. Nelson was graduated from Nevada University just before the War, he went back to Onawa, Iowa, to work in his father's candy store and ice cream parlor. The family had come from Denmark in the '90s and this confectionery business meant their prosperity. Christian dished out bulk ice cream with chocolate flavor; sold packages of brick ice cream and bars of chocolate. Thus came the idea of a chocolate bar filled with ice cream, that is, a stick of brick ice cream coated with chocolate. Russell Stover, Omaha ice cream maker, said that...
Bold advertising of this pert name made their Eskimo Pie popular immediately. The U. S. licked at cold chocolate bars and ice cream makers throughout the U. S. sought license to manufacture Eskimo Pie. For every dozen of these pies they made-and at the height of Eskimo Pie popularity 2,000,000 were sold daily-they paid Russell Stover and Christian K. Nelson a nickel. These men grew rich-income $1,000,000 yearly. Then the U. S. Foil Co. which manufactures wrappings for can- dies and small articles, bought control of their company and they became contented security...